Former Canada Green Party candidate accused of hate speech for denying Holocaust
Human rights complaints have been filed against a former candidate for Canada’s Green Party after she posted online videos in which she denied the Holocaust…
Politics
What was Ruth Bader Ginsburg thinking in criticizing Donald Trump?
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — What was RBG thinking? U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg launched a broadside against Republican presidential nominee Donald…
Turkey, Egypt, Africa: How ‘hard-liner’ Netanyahu pulled off a diplomacy trifecta
By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) – The conventional wisdom has it that earning the sobriquet “the most right-wing government in Israeli history” does not lead…
op/ed: Raising the minimum wage will help hard working Albertans
by David Shepherd, MLA Edmonton-Centre (July 7, 2016) – Sometimes when I talk to people, they’re surprised at the number of different jobs I held…
Blog: Why not Al Franken? Some think the senator and former comic could be Hillary’s VP
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — Last week Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) said that if Hillary Clinton asked him to be her running mate, he’d take…